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Curing damp ingres ...
Jan 27th, 2014, 6:34pm
 
...or how I made a cock-up.


Sometime back I put in a new window but now realise that I cocked up the DPM.  I should have wrapped it vertically up the inside face of the stone cill.  But I didn't.  So water gradually accumulates between the DPM and the stone cill and then pools onto the top of the dwarf wall and we get damp coming through the plaster.

I could Synthaprufe the internal face of the dwarf wall but would rather try and stop the water coming in in the first place.  But cant really see a good way forward. If the existing DPM was dry then I could try applying a load of gorilla glue onto a second piece and sliding that in between the existing DPM and the stone cill.  But it isn't.  Expanding foam ?

Any suggestions very welcome.  TIA
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Reply #1 - Jan 28th, 2014, 7:49am
 
I wouldn't normally fit a DPM below a window, unless it's full length ( like French doors) they don't need one and it can be counterproductive. If the window has mastic to both edges and cill where it meets the wall plus a drip groove to the under side of the cill you shouldn't get any water ingress.
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